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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like Castillo and the Sox need Castillo. However, his 9 career WAR maybe doesn't justify investing more in talent than Sox trades for the better guarantees of Sale (30 WAR) or Pedro Martinez, who had 20 WAR through age 25.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, MLB.com today poses a Bogaerts trade to Philly centered around a minor league pitcher -- Dombro's #4 prospect. My first thought: seriously, is that the best you can do (as in, you professional writers who supposedly know the industry)? My second: is, uhhhh... is that the best we can do?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's a fair point, but I also remember that 39M for 3 is part of what made Sale such a hot commodity at the time: team control at a then-bargain rate. To Moon's point -- some (most) of us complain about moves the Red Sox make or don't make, but how much must it suck to be a diehard Reds' fan right now? They just had one of the top MLB rotations, guys in their primes, but because of current economics (and a market that may never recover), they can't sign their Cy Young and are willing to trade their other two aces... Can they ever afford to open a window again?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any deal like that, anyway: arguably the Red Sox two best position players, plus two more projected regulars -- that's already way more than Dombro traded for Chris Sale, who had earned 30.1 WAR through age 27. Castillo is good, but through the same age only has 9.1 WAR so far. Despite numerical values that a website assigns, there are also practicalities that factor into decisions made by humans. It's why I was sure Bloom would insist on at least getting Verdugo back for Betts (when the site and several posters were saying, "No way"). The Reds should shoot high, but they'd be lucky to get, say Bogaerts and Dalbec, with maybe a minor league arm or two that can throw hard. No GMs are giving up four everyday players for one guy who pitches every five days.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fair point. He is a monster that some pitchers will want to avoid. And Dalbec's honest, since all his outcomes are true; we held a mini-celebration one game when he hit two singles.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    According to recent quotes by scouts, Beni has no current trade value. It would be more worth it, to me, to hang onto him and see if his talents get rejuvenated under Cora. Duran and Dalbec are good enough prospects to actually yield something decent coming back, perhaps players with more promise than the mediocre or injury-prone free agent targets in the Sox news. Duran is expendable because Jimenez may be as good or better as the Sox centerfielder of the near future. Dalbec is expendable because Casas is Boston's number one prospect. Dalbec is also redundant as a big whiffer, along with Chavis, Renfroe, and all the other 100+ K-men in the lineup. We are the Sultans of Swing... and Miss.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He only knows what he wants to do: not get killed.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was thinking the exact same thing. I prefer players who are described with words like "fundamentals" and "consistency".
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No wonder Bud Black hates the DH; he played in over 300 games in the American League and batted zero times. At least he had a craptacular NL: .145 lifetime, no dingers.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "It won't happen but banning batting gloves would help lessen the excuse for stepping out." "Ban batting gloves, mandate pine tar (offensively and defensively)." ... listen you radicals, "batting" gloves have been around for over 50 years, when Mantle wore a golf glove on Home Run Derby, and then Hawk Harrelson kept his on for real games after a few rounds of 18. But Velcro wasn't invented yet, so no reason to constantly readjust. Players only used their bare hands for a century before that. It's amazing that any batter ever got a hit for one hundred years.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and ban Velcro!
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Four ALCS Game Sevens and two rings in six years -- if you were a kid rooting for the Sox in that era, nothing will probably ever top it. I know a kid who became a Red Sox TV fan at age 6, attended his first Fenway game the next summer, and was a total diehard by age 8. The years were 2016, 2017, 2018: first, first, first/best ever.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Get that Martian off my... barren craters.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The long modern game doesn't make twinbills as attractive as they once were to attendees. In 2019, the Red Sox doubleheaders averaged between 6-7 hours in game-time, but I'm not sure how much gap was in between (if they were day-night separate admission). Last year's Bosox played two doubleheaders of 7 innings each in around 5 1/2 hours. The 1975 Red Sox played 13 doubleheaders that averaged around 5 hours total -- that's two games of at least nine innings each; unbelievable as it may seem to modern fans, the Sox swept the Yanks on July 27th of that year in exactly 4 hours, 30 minutes... for two games. A week later, Boston also swept Detroit in 4 hours, 49 minutes, but one game went 10 innings. Each team got to start off the extra frame with a hitter at the plate and a pitcher on the mound...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Cleveland Rock N Roll Artifacts aren't really cursed; they just played too long in a fog all those years in that ballpark built on an ocean.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some of those people even include "experts" like the editors of Sports Illustrated (back when fans read magazines), like when they put Cleveland's Cory Snyder on the cover of their 1987 Baseball Issue (along with Joe Carter). Hey, Snyder hit 33 HRs that year and played nine seasons; at least he turned out better than Super Joe Charboneau -- Rookie of the Year in 1980, out of the MLB forever two years later...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... the ice cream table? They sound like Jen and Barry flavors. I think I'll have a Schoop of La Stella, please.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... or with Chavis, if Dalbec is flipped for pitching. It's doubtful Chavis is part of a second base platoon this year.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    His most value just may be to allow the Sox to trade Dalbec (a better player) for pitching.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ha -- I actually looked up 2019, the last full season, to see what MLBers with less than 100 Ks we could target for some semblance of batting order balance. There weren't even enough players -- infielders or outfielders -- for a worthy post.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They're already hurt every year now. As for Mookie, there were a few prognosticators here, and more in the media, fixated on the six-foot high benchmark for longevity. This idiot defers to superior hand-eye coordination (which most MLBers have), Hank Aaron wrists (which most don't have) and healthy lifestyles (subject to change, of course, but better pedigree = better bets).
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No surprise Dombro is in on JBJ. With more teams driving up the price, Bloom and BOH have to be focusing elsewhere. Unless they're serious about just making Verdugo the centerfielder, I have to think Eddie Rosario may also be less of an option.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... except the first one; he's only five feet, nine inches tall and weighs less than a bowling ball!
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The tangent of notin's post was physical size. I wasn't referring to the organization at all, just the pundits who told us all last winter how much physical size matters when considering the size of baseball contracts.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or how about Marcus Lynn Betts? That player who will never be worth a longterm contract because he's so short; you know, the guy who already has the most three-homer games in history and is just entering his prime...
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